The Myanmar civil war and Ukraine war are serving as laboratories for the testing and development of drone warfare.

Long delayed and ever controversial, the INSTC is a ‘sanctions free’ trade corridor that aims to recalibrate Eurasian trade flows. This backgrounder examines the interests and geopolitics surrounding the project.

The JMSDF is establishing a Fleet Information Warfare Command to better respond to space, cyber, and information threats, and to boost interoperability with the US Navy.

There is now desert where much of the world’s fourth-largest lake used to be, and the economic, health, and environmental consequences for peoples living near the lake are enormous.

After a reprieve in the post-Cold War era, Pacific island countries are once again figuring prominently in the geopolitics of great power rivalry.

China’s military base in Tajikistan continues to expand alongside Beijing’s widening interests in Central Asia.

Calling for elections may at first seem strange given Beijing’s strong pro-junta stance, but it’s much less so one when considering the economic interests and political parties involved.

Largely unnoticed by global headlines or great powers, the Sudan civil war has devolved into one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.

Where many see the Cold War as the closest historical analogue to contemporary US-China tensions, the 19th century ‘Great Game’ is a much more apt comparison.

Cloud seeding is increasingly looked to as a mitigation tool for the worst effects of the climate crisis. But as rain becomes scarcer, the technique risks fomenting conflict between states competing for the same clouds.